Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Kraftwerk Union Aktiengesellschaft

Otto Muller

Robert Weber

Erich Weghaupt

Siegfried Forner

Georg Gugel

Dieter Kullmann

Hans Kastl

Anton Kautetzky

Erich Kohlert

Hans Rottger

Hans-Gunter Hagen

Alois Koppl

An override function for an automatic temperature and/or air flow controller is achieved with an individual, at least partial closing of outlet nozzles of a ventilation system independent of the controller the outlet nozzles are in the middle plane in the inside of the motor vehicle and controlled by way of a regulating device. The regulating device is additionally set as a function of a condition of an adjustable control mechanism device which is assigned to each of the outlet nozzles for the manual, at least partial, blocking of the outlet nozzles. A rotary control knob is respectively integrated into each of the outlet nozzle housings as the adjustable control mechanism, and has an assigned set potentiometer with a variable setting range including a first setpoint for automatic operation control and an override control range with a variable setpoint for the correspondingly variable blocking condition of the outlet nozzles.

Ventilation system for a motor vehicle

Automatically traveling tube-interior manipulator for the remotely controlled transportation of testing devices and tools along given feedpaths through the tube interior, including a stepping mechanism having at least two links including a rear stepping body and a front counterstepping body as seen in the direction of entry into the tube, at least one gimbal-type joint hinging the bodies to each other, clamping devices disposed on each of the bodies for clamping the bodies to the inner periphery of the tube, driving means associated with at least one of the bodies for transporting the stepping body in the axial direction of the tube relative to the counterstepping body when the clamping device of the stepping body is engaged and the clamping device of the counterstepping body is disengaged and vice versa, guiding elements disposed on the outer periphery of each of the bodies for transportation along the inner periphery of the tube, a line reservoir disposed outside the tube, a flexible harness of supply lines connected from the rear stepping body to the line reservoir, and a manipulator head mounted on the front counterstepping body for the testing devices and tools.

Automatically traveling tube-interior manipulator for remotely

In an electric machine with a superconducting exciter winding and a cylindrical shaft end piece in its rotor around which end piece a nonrotating connector head part is arranged, with at least one bearing and at least one sealing device provided between these components, the radial bearing clearance is made so small that the connector head part follows the radial deflections of the shaft end piece from its ideal position relative to the axis of rotation permitting the use of seals with good sealing properties, in particular ferrofluidic seals.

Electric machine with a rotor with a superconducting field winding

Accessory for a screw-tightening device having a support ring with hydraulic piston-cylinder assemblies as tensioning elements for pressure-vessel cover screws, the assemblies being disposable on a flange of the pressure-vessel cover, fastening nuts for the cover screws being loosenable and tightenable as well as transportable by the screw-tightening device, including a divided auxiliary ring having parting gaps formed in a circumferential region thereof corresponding to a circumferential region of the support ring at which parting gaps are likewise formed, the auxiliary ring and the support ring being mutually superimposable and clampable, the divided auxiliary ring having the parts thereof provided with respective means for engagement by a lifting tool, the rings having flange connections at the parting gaps thereof, the flange connections being disconnectible to form at least two separate arcuate units respectively including part of the support ring and part of the auxiliary ring clamped together for transport by the screw-tightening device.

Attachment for screw-tightening devices, preferably for reactor pressure

Manipulator assembly for testing the material of a pipe elbow from the inside thereof, the pipe elbow being secured to a pipe union extending from a pressure vessel openable for receiving therein a vertically extending manipulator mast having an arm carrying a manipulator, the manipulator being movable by the arm in vertical direction, rotatably about the axis of the mast and in direction of the longitudinal axis of the arm and transversely thereto, the manipulator includes a multimember vehicle drivable in direction of the pipe-union and pipe-elbow axis, the members of the vehicle being articulatingly connected to one another and having extensible and retractable support legs for supporting the respective vehicular members centered relative to the inner periphery of the pipe elbow, the support legs having roller members at the end thereof for transporting the vehicular members in axial direction of the pipe union and the pipe elbow, the vehicular member located at the head of the multimember vehicle being a test system carrier and being drivable with the vehicle in axial direction of the pipe union and the pipe elbow, the test system carrier having a test system fastened to at least one test arm and mounted so as to be rotatable along predetermined test tracks in circumferential direction of the pipe elbow, drivable radially inwardly and outwardly with the test arm and centerable on the respective center of the pipe elbow, the vehicular members and the test system carrier being mutually engaged by articulating couplings and longitudinally adjustable drive members so that, in an extended readiness position thereof wherein the manipulator is disposed in front of the pipe union, the vehicular members and the test system carrier are oriented in axial direction of the pipe union, are centered on the pipe union center and are rigidly coupled to one another, whereas in a travelling position thereof wherein at least the test system of the manipulator is located within the pipe elbow, the vehicular members and the test system carrier are loosely coupled to one another so that they adapt themselves to the curvature of the pipe elbow as they travel in axial direction thereof.

Elbow or bent tube manipulator, especially for ultrasonic testing in

An apparatus is provided for use with a pressurized-water reactor's steam generator having a manifold chamber enclosing the bottom side of a horizontal tube sheet having holes therethrough in which are mounted the tubes of a heat exchanger tube bundle, the manifold chamber having a manhole giving access to the tube's bottom side to permit internal inspection or repair of the tubes by registration of an end of a flexible guide conduit with the tube sheet holes and through which a flexible carrier can be guided for insertion via these holes in the tube sheet and through the tubes extending from the tube sheet's other side. The apparatus is a light-weight fixture which is manually insertable through the manhole and comprising a beam, means for detachably supporting the beam horizontally in the chamber beneath the tube sheet's bottom side, a horizontal cantilever arm having one end provided with means for supporting the aforementioned guide conduit with its end pointing upwardly and means for mounting the other end of the arm on the beam for horizontal movement of its end having the guide conduit supporting means. The carrier is a flexible hose insertable through any one of the heat exchanger tubes, and being tubular, the carrier hose can carry conductors from an inspection or repair device mounted on the inner end of the carrier hose, back to the relatively safe, remote location for measuring or controlling purposes. The apparatus has additional features.

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Effeltrich, Germany

Otto Muller